1787 NJ 1/2P Maris 40-b, Llama Head, BN MS(PCGS#763335)

November 2019 Baltimore Colonial Coins and Americana Auction

拍卖行

Stack's Bowers

批号

6114

等级

F15BN

价格

50,531

详细说明

Popular 1787 Maris 40-b Llama Head Rarity Ex Hall, Brand, and Bareford Collections. 1787 New Jersey copper. Maris 40-b. Rarity-5+. Outlined Shield, Llama Head. Overstruck on a 1787 Connecticut copper. F-15 (PCGS). 142.8 grains. 31.3 mm. Last offered in our 1984 sale of Harold Bareford’s New Jersey coppers, where it was described as “Overstruck on a Connecticut on a broad planchet with the letters AUCTORI CONNEC clearly visible on the reverse. All of the important details on both sides are clear. Smooth surfaces with no scratches, marks, or other problems. Dark brown with lighter highlights. Fine.” Smooth and glossy, with beautiful color and ideal centering, this is pretty much perfect for the grade. A small natural lamination is noted where the plow meets the plow handles, and some nearly invisible hairline scratches are seen on the shield, but there is probably not a more choice Fine Llama Head extant. Die State 2, with the loop of R in PLURIBUS filled. The reverse is rotated a few degrees clockwise. This is one of those varieties that is distinctive enough to not only have its own name, but have something of a personality all its own. It is rare but not impossibly so. It is always or almost always overstruck. It is rarely choice, but when found nice, the handsome diework and broad planchets make for an especially pleasing New Jersey copper. The Craige specimen, overstruck on a 1780-H French sou, seems to hold the world auction record for this variety: it brought $49,937.50 in our January 2013 sale, a testament to its positive eye appeal and unique undertype. This Connecticut undertype is more typical, as is this grade, but this sort of visual appeal is unusual for a Llama Head. This coin has an provenance rivaled by few other specimens as well. Provenance: From the E Pluribus Unum Collection of New Jersey Coppers. Earlier, Dr. Thomas Hall Collection to Virgil Brand, 1909; Brand Estate to New Netherlands Coin Company, 1951; Harold Bareford Collection; Stack’s sale of the Bareford Collection, May 1984, lot 162. PCGS# 763335 and 521277. Click here for certification details from PCGS.